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Christmas Lights Recycling & Energy Saving Holiday Lights

'Tis the time to be green so I wanted to pass the word along...

Christmas Light Trade-in
Bring in your old, broken or used incandescent holiday light strings to your local The Home Depot store for recycling. Get a discount for each recycled string on a single receipt, in-store purchase of LED lights. Limit 5 discounts per customer.

LED Holiday string lights:

Use 80% less energy than traditional incandescent holiday lights
ENERGY STAR qualified
Can last up to 10 times longer than traditional incandescent lights
Cool to the touch, reducing the risk of fire
Do not have moving parts, filaments or glass, so they are much more durable and shock-resistant than other lights
The amount of electricity consumed by just one 7-watt incandescent bulb could power 140 LEDs- enough to light two 24 foot strings

With those benefits we make it easy to Save Green Live Green. Also don’t forget that November 15 is “America Recycles Day” so make sure to get out and participate. Take care and Happy Holidays.

Get your glow on with these eco-minded LED, solar, and rechargeable lights. Sunset.com

Story: Jess Chamberlain

Click here for slideshow "Energy-saving Christmas lights" - Sunset.com

Swap incandescents for LEDs at Christmas light trade-in - latimes.com

Trade In Christmas Lights ? Christmas Lights Recycling

Methyl Bromide Ban Has Almost No Effect On Measured Levels Of The Pesticide

In some of California's top strawberry-growing counties, levels of banned methyl bromide remain nearly as high as they were a decade ago, despite a mandated phaseout, according to an analysis by New America Media

The fumigant was supposed to have been phased out completely by 2005, under a global pact to halt the thinning of the earth's protective ozone layer. But in 2009, the latest year for which data is available, more than 5 million pounds of the pesticide were still in use, down just 50 percent from 2000.

Energy-efficient homes seem to sell faster, fetch higher prices - latimes.com

Beetle devours San Diego County oaks -- rest of state may be next

A hungry pest called the goldspotted oak borer is devouring enormous numbers of oak trees in San Diego County, and its devastation could spread to trees throughout California, according to researchers at UC Riverside.

More than 80,000 oak trees in the county have been killed in the past decade. Unless the march of the half-inch-long beetle is stopped, it could threaten 10 million acres of red oak woodlands in the state, researchers said.

IKEA Solar Parade Marches Into San Diego | EarthTechling

If it seems just a bit brighter as you peruse the aisles of San Diego’s IKEA store, it’s not some new Swedish super light bulb. It’s clean, green solar power.

The retailer recently flicked the switch on its new roof-mounted solar power system. The 30,000-squar-foot photoelectric array consists of 1,120 panels and a 252-kilowatt system which will provide approximately 366,400 kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually – enough to power about 32 homes. The new IKEA array will lower the store’s carbon footprint by 290 tons of carbon dioxide, the company said.

Pioneer in 'green' homes coming to San Diego - SignOnSanDiego.com

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